Pocketed carrier.



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POCKETED CARRIER.

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APPLICATION FILED ocT. 6. 1917.

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Prns Pr ontw@ 'VICTOR H. 'JENNING OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, A-SSIGNOR TO UNIVERSAL PATENTS COMPANY, OF WOONSOCKET, RHODE ISLAND, A CORPORATION OF RHODE ISLAND'.

POCKETED CARRIER.

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Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 232, tgl@ Applicaticn filed October 6, 1917. Serial No. 195,155.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR H. JnNiviNes, a citizen of the United States, residing at Worcester, in the county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Pocketed Carriers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. i

The invention has relation to cartridge carriers and other pocketed carriers of woven material on the order of those which constitute elements of military equipment and the like. More particularly, it has reference to carriers of the class comprising a' pocketpiece woven with one o r more pockets or pouches and combined with a backing-piece. It is useful in the case of carriers in which the backing is a long cover-web that is fas# tened across its lower end to the bottom of the pocketfpiece, and across its middle to the top of the pocket-piece, so that the portion thereof between the two lines of fastenings forms a loop for transverse insertion of the supporting-belt `while the upper portion constitutes a pocketcover or flap.

\ The general objects of the invention are to improve the character, construction, and appearance of carriers of the said class, and facilitate and expedite the manufacture thereof.

Embodiments of the features of the invention are shown in the drawings, in which latter the magazine-carrier of Figs. l to 3, looking at the front thereof.

--Fig. 5 is a view vin section on line v5, 5, of Fig.` 4.

l Fig. 6 is an isometric oblique view lookingV at the back of the said pocket-piece.

The pocketed carrier of Figs. l to 3 is furnished with two pockets l, 1, designed to receive magazines for automatic pistols. It comprises a pocket-piece which s woven with such pockets, and a backing 2, of woven material to `which the said pocket-piece is Y fastened. The number of pockets may vary in practice, and in different embodiments of the invention the proportions of the pocket or pockets may vary according to the nature, etc., of the article or articles intended to be received therein. The application of the fastenings by which the pocket piece and backing are secured to each other may vary.

The illustrated carrier is adapted to be slipped upon a supporting-belt. To provide for such mode of applying the carrier to the supporting-belt the backing 2 is of a length somewhat exceeding the height of the pocket-piece and is fastened only across its lower end, as by a transverse line of stitches 3, to the bottom of the pocket-piece, and across its middle, as by transverse lines of stitches 4, 4, to the top of the pocket-piece, so that the portion of the backing between the two transverse lines of fastening forms loop for transverse insertion of the sup portingbelt. The upper portion of the backing 2 constitutes in this embodiment of the invention a pocket-cover or flap 5, which is adapted tobe folded forward over the tops of the pockets l, l, and down against the fronts of said pockets. At 6, 6, and 7, 7, are coacting fastener-members which are attached to the free end of the pocket-cover or flap and to the fronts of the pockets, to keep the cover or flap securely closed down in place, as usual.

One characteristic feature of a carrier embodying the invention is the upwardlyextending flange 8 rising from the back of the poclret-piece above the pocket-top, and with which the upper lines of stitches 4, 4, are enlgaged for the purpose of fastening the top of the pocket-piece to the middle portion of the length of the c0ver-piece. Such lines of fastenings are located above the pocket-top.

The pocket-piece has the front wall 9 and back wall 10 of the pockets thereof united in the weaving at 1l and l2 at the lateral sides of the pockets, as shown to best advantage in the views of the pocket-piece in Figs. 4 and 5. At the lateral sides of the pocket or pockets of the pocket-piece, the latter, as woven, has side-wings 13, 13, Figs. 2 and 4 to 6, beyond the side-joinings l2, l2. These side-wings are folded around and secured at the back of the pocket or pockets, as shown in Fig. 2, before the attachment of the pocket-piece and backing to each other, so that the folded sidewings are covered by the backing in fthe finished carrier. The inode er" fastening the side-wings in place at the back of the pocket or pockets may vary in practice. Preferably their free edges are butted together and the butt-joint is covered by a tape 14, Fig. 2, fastened to the side-wings by lines of stitches 15, 15, along its side-edges. This inode of fastening the folded side-wings in place, and binding the joint7 covers in the raw or cut edges and provides for easy insertion of the end of the supporting-belt through the opening A of the loop, and ready slipping of the belt back pocket-wall -in the loom by a set through the loop.

Preferably, though not necessarily in all instances, the side-wings 13, 18, of the pocket-piece are woven thinner than the portions of the pocket-piece at 11 and 12, 12, where the front and back walls of the pockets are joined in the weaving. This reduction in thickness lessens the amount of material that is turned in at the back of the pocket-piece. To produce the side-wings ot reduced thickness, the Warp-threads 16, 16, Figs. 5 and 6, of one of the pocket-walls, 1n this case those of the back walls, are floated Without interweaving with weft-threads after the pocket-walls have been joined together at 12, 12. rlhereby the said wall is discontinued beyond the side-joinings of the pocket-walls. Preferably the said warpthreads are caused to float at the back surface of the pocket-piece, as in Fig. 6, and after the weaving are cut away.

The upwardly-extending flange 8 of the pocket-piece is constituted of a supplemental web-portion that is integral with the at the pocket-tops, with the side-joinings 11 and 12, 12, and also with the lateral continuations constituting the sido-wings 13, 18. In order that the said supplemental web-portion may be woven integral with the back wall of a pocket, or of each of the two pockets of the form of carrier illustrated in thedrawing, and with the lateral continuations of the front wall, alone, constituting the side-wings, the warp threads of said supplemental web-portion are controlled for shed-forming purposes of harnesses additional to those employed for forming the sheds in the warp-threads of the other portions of the pocket-piece. j v

The supplemental web-portion constituting the flange 8 is woven of sutlicient length to provide for turning the end-portions of the said flange to the back, so that the line or lines of fastenings t engaging with the flange also engage with the inturned ends of the iiange. Thereby` a better finish is secured, and the upper corners of the pocketpiece are more efectually reinforced.

By providing `the pocket-piece with a flange rising above the pocket-tops and securing the pocket-piece to the backing by means of fastenings serious inconvenience of applying the fastenings to the back wall of the pocket below the pocket-top is obviated.

llVhat is claimed as the invention is,-

l. A pocketed carrier for detachable application to a supporting-belt, comprising a pocket-piece woven with o Jposite sidewings which are folded around and secured at the back, and a cover-web which is fastened across theinlddle of-its length to the top of the pocket-piece and across tlielower end to the lower end of the pocket so that the upper portion of said cover-.web constitutes a flexible `pocket-covcr or flap and the lower portionV thereof constitutes a loop that is separable from the back of the pocket between the upper and lower fastcnings to permit the said supporting-belt to be passed through transversely, said pocket-piece woven with a narrow flange projecting above the top of the pocket and with which the upper fastenings are engaged above the top of the pocket.

2. A poeketed carrier of woven material adapted to be slipped `upon a supportingbelt, comprising a pocket-piece woven with side-wings that are turned to the back and secured, and a long cover-web that is fastened across its lower end to the bottom of the vpocket-piece and the pocket-piece above the top of the pocket, so that the supporting-belt maybe slipped transversely through between the lower portion of the cover-web and the inturned sidewings while the upper portion of the coverweb constitutes a pocket-cover or flap, said pocket-piece also woven `with a flange rising above the pocket-top and having the ends of said liange turned to the back and the said upper line of fastenings engaged with the .flange and its inturned ends.

3. A pocketed carrier comprising a backing, and a woven pocket-piece having the front and back walls of the pocket thereof joined in the weaving at the lateral sides of the pocket, with lateral continuations of diminished thickness beyond the side-joinings of said pocket-walls, the said pocket-piece also woven with a flange` projecting above the mouth of the pocket consisting of a supplemental web-portion that is integral with the back pocket-wall at the pocket-top and also with the said lateral continuations and having said lateral continuations andthe ends of said flange bent around and secured at the back, and lfastenings engaging with said flange externally of the pocket and securing the same to the said backing.,

4. A pocketed carrier comprising a backing, and a woven pocket-piece having the front and. back walls of the pocket thereof united in the weaving at the lateral sides of the pocket, Awith lateral continuations of engaging with the said flange, a better carrier is produced, and the across its middle to Y the pocket-front beyond the side-joinings of said pocket-walls,l and with one of the walls discontinued beyond the places of union of the two walls to reduce the thickness of said lateral continuations, the said pocket-piece woven with a flange projecting above the rnouth of the pocket, consisting of a supplemental web-portion that is integral with the back pocket-wall at the pocket-top, and also with the said lateral continuations of the pocket-front and having said lateral continuations and the ends of said flange bent around and secured at the back, and fastenings engaging with said ange externally of the pocket and securing the same to the backing.

with lateral eontinuations of diminished i thickness beyond the side-joinings of said pocket-walls, and with said lateral continuations bent around and secured at the back of the pocket-piece.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

VICTOR I-I. JENNINGS. Witnesses:

ELVA M. LORD, ALICE M. TISDALE.

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